Transportaion-ticket.



E. A. DENHAM.

TRANSPORTATION TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED 001*. 26, 1907.

Patented Feb.23,1909.

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EDWIN A. DENHAM, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRANSPORTATION-TICKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

Application filed October 26, 1907. Serial No. 399,240.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, EDWIN A. DENHAM, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, (whose post-office address is 498 Broadway, New York, N. Y.,) have invented certain new and .useful Improvements in Transportation-Tickets, of which the following is a full, clear, and ex act description, whereby any one skilled in the art may make and use the same.

This invention relates to tickets for transportation upon railways or other means or systems for transportation, and has for its object a ticket of the formand character hereinafter described, adapted. to check fare receipts, tojprevent false and fraudulent returns byservants or employees, to secure the codperation of passengers in such matters, and to evidence the rights and privileges conferred upon and belonging 'to passengers -,paying fare, including the right to transortati'on, to transfer and to redemption of t 0 ticket as hereinafter more fully described and explained;

Referring to the drawings :Figure 1 illus trates in diagram by the close parallel lines,

' a railway system running through various tersects a line C0. cated a branch line extendmg from the main city blocks and showing intersections and branches of various lines.- Fig. 2 illustrates.

the-face of a form of receipt, transfer or redemption coupon covering general conditions. Fi 3 1s a rear face view of such a means as s own in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 illustrates a convenient means of arranging the-specific check shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

' Referring to Fig. '1 there is shown in diagram a railway system, the main line of -which extends from A to a. At B-Cb there is an intersecting lipe which also ant 'et ere is'in iline Ata. At D:-d there is indicated a "branch line extending from the line 0-0.

For the purposes of illustration, let it be understood that the main offices of the system. or the starting'point from which employees take their instructions and car is at A A, and let it be assumed that the point marked "RP is a redemption point, forthe urposw hereinafter defined. Thus Fig. l, i lustrates a railway system havingbranches E eDd and an intersecting line BC.b gving possible transfer points at B'GD.-

Referring now to Fig. 2 there is shown one form 01" fare receipt voucher which, as illustrated herein, contains three sections a fare receipt coupon No. l, a transfer coupon No. 2 and a redemption coupon No. 3.

It will be noted that each of these coupons contains certain written or printed matter indicating its particular use and value. writing is arranged in'parallel lines upon the several sections and said sections are made detachable one from the other, while the three sections are detachable from a pad or book, such as illustrated in Fig. 4. The

sections may be made detachable by means of perforations or indentations as indicated by the dotted lines of Fig. 2. Extending across the back of each voucher, such as is illustrated in Fig. 3, is a writing or printing indicating that the three sections if presented at a given redemption point under certainconditions will entitle the holder to a. certain remuneration. It will be noted that the writing upon the rear of the ticket extends across its several sections parallel with the writing upon the face, and there fore the separat on of any particular section will necessarily destroy the redemption value indicated upon the rear face of said ticket. The thirdpart of the ticket herein shown and described is designed for the particular conditions hereinafter defined, and of course it is understood that there may be more or less sections to a ticket, but whether said ticket contains one or more sections the redemption conditions printed upon the same holds the ticket subject to inspection during his entire period of transportation. He may of course ride from A toe and this entireticket is merely a voucher showing that he is entitled to ride said distance. Assume now that said passenger having received the entire ticket desires to transfer at point B. He leaves the vehicle at B having traversed the distance from A to B, and upon entering This a vehicle ofthe line B-Cb he presents said ticket to the conductor under the terms and conditions printed thereon with reference to time and direction of transfer. The conductor of the transfer line accepts sald ticket as a fare, registering it upon his mechanical recorder, and thereupon issues to thepassenger a ticket substantially identical in form with that illustrated in Fig. 2, butembodying sections 1 and 2 only. Thereupon the passenger is provided with a voucher entitling him to ride upon the line BCb and of course the conductor 'retains upon his stub of tickets the 'sect-ion,3

or C of the fare receipt illustrated-in Fig. 2, and the retaining of said stub indicates to the oflicials at the home station that said conductor has received a'full cash fare receipt and redemptlon coupon as a transfer and has delivered in return therefora fare receipt coupon and transfer coupon without the rights of redemption to the passenger.

' Assume now that the same passenger having traversed the transfer line to the point C desires again to transfer to the line C-0.

With the new voucher including sections 1 and 2 issued by the conductor of the line B-Cb he enters a vehicle of the line C '-0 and presents said sections 1 and-2 indicating his right of transportation. The conductor accepts said" sections 1 and 2 and from his pad, having three sections substantially identical with those shown in Fig. 2, gives in exchange to said passenger section 1 torn from lllS pad, retaining sections 1 and 2 de-' livered by the passenger, and from the pad of the conductor on the line BCb which, when turned in to the company,indicates that he has given a second transfer transportation to the same passenger. H6101! course rings up on his indicator a fare showing that the passenger has delivered a transfer I exercising his rights of.trans er is entitled to retain the entire voucher and receive a suitable redemption at the redemption point RP when he presents said voucher under the terms which may be printed'thereon. On the other hand, if he uses his rights of transfer he loses the rights of redemption, but 1sv compelled to carry and exchange his voucher, thus placing an absolute check upon the employees operating the transfer vehicles. Take another instanceif the passenger should elect to transfer at the-point E, said line E-e representing a single transfer right. The passenger receiving the full voucher with sections 1, 2 and 3 would do liver said voucher to the conductor of the line Ee and thereupon would have his, fare registered and would receive from the conductor of said line a fare receiptcouponl including only section 1 which, of course,

entitles him to a full ride over said transfer I line without rights of redemption. and without ri 'hts of further transfer.

It is believed the special advantages attained by this system and means -of operation will be apparent.

Of course it is understood that the transportation ticket may be made in any desir-. able form and may be arranged as to reading' matter and other articu-lars in such manner as to meet the exigencies of any particular case.

As shown in Fig. 2, the transportation ticket may consist of two or more coupons and the coupons may be lettered in any suitv ablemanner, as A and B, and the coupons may be numbered and each may have the same number,.as number 2579, so that the transportation ticket or coupons thereof may be checked upon issue and return. Ea'ch ticket may, moreover, be provided-with the names of the months and figures indicating the days thereof in order that the same may be punched by the conductor upon delivery to a passenger. v I

What I'claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1. A transportation ticket provided wit a coupon bearing matter conferring the right to transportation, a coupon bearing matter conferring the right to transfer, and

a coupon bearing matter conferring the. right to a redemption value when attached to the transfer coupon, substantially as de- 1 5 scribed.

2. A transportation ticket provided with a coupon bearing matter conferring the right to transportation, a coupon bearing matter conferring the right to transfer, and a coupon bearing matter conferring thev right to redemption when attached to the transfer coupon, said ticket being provided with indentations adapted to render the parts thereof detachable, substantially as described.

3. The combination, in the form of a pad, of transportation tickets, each ticket being provided with a coupon bearing matter conferring the right to transportatlon, a coupon bearing matter conferring the right to transfer, and a coupon bearing matter conferring the right to redemption when attachedto the transfer coupon, said ticket being provided with indentations adapted to render theparts thereof detachable, substantially as described.

4:. A transportation ticket provided with a transportation coupon, a transfer coupon and a redemption coupon, and provided with a transportation coupon, with a transfer coupon attached to the transportation coupon,

conferring the right to a redemption value tion and transfer, without the right to rethe transfer coupon, and provided with text traversing coupons and conferring the right to a redemption value when the coupons bearing thetext are resented, the transportation coupon and tie transfer coupon attached thereto bearing matter conferring the pon attached to the transportation coupon, right to transportation and transfer, without and with a redemption coupon attached to i the right to redemption when part of the the transfer coupon, and provided with text 5 said text is detached from the remainder thercof, substantially as described.

text traversing coupons and conferring the I right to a redemption value when the cou- I pons bearing said text are presented, substantially as described.

5. A transportation ticket provided with I when the coupons bearing said text are pre- 5 sented, the transportatlon coupon and the I made of rcadlly dlvisible material and protransfer coupon attached thereto bearing matter conferring the right to transportal transportation, and with matter conferring the option to transfer or to redeem the ticket in part for value when the parts thereof remain undivided, substantially as described.

EDWIN A. DENHAM.

demption when the redemption coupon is detached, substantially as described.

6. A transportation ticket provided with a transportation coupon, with a transfer cou- \Vitnesses EDWIN S, MERRILL, A.-M. PARKER.

and with a redemption coupon attached to 7. A transportation ticket comprising partsv I vided with matter conferring the right to 

